academy
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When academy helps
Base Score
7
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
6
A C D E M Y
Two-Letter Start
AC
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
MY
Check this pattern late
- 7 letters
- 6 unique letters
- AC start
- MY ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- academy is worth 7 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 6 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, d, e, m, y plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (A x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The MY ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the AC start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily page.
Pronunciation
noun
(usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
noun
(usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
noun
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
noun
A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
"the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.; a music academy; a language academy"
noun
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
noun
The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
noun
(with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
noun
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
noun
A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
Related Words
Synonyms
- learnedsociety